10cc: 'It was a tragedy we didn't stay together' | Music | The Guardian 10cc 10cc: 'It was a tragedy we didn't stay together' They made some of the cleverest and most inventive music of the 70s, but split up at the height of their success. 10cc come together for the first time in 36 years to explain where it went wrong Thursday 22 November 2012 15.00 EST First published on Thursday 22 November 2012 15.00 EST Share on Messenger Close Forget the Stone Roses' comeback and the mooted (and denied) Smiths reunion : another great Manchester band has reunited. True, it is solely for the purpose of being interviewed by the Guardian. But it is the first time all four members of 10cc have spoken to the same publication, for the same article, since their split in 1976.

The reason they have "reconvened" is to discuss Tenology, a five-CD box set focusing on the pioneering pop music they made between 1972 and 1976, when their fast-paced, action-packed hits made them one of the biggest bands in Britain. "Yes, in a way we're back together," says Graham Gouldman. "Only we're in a box, not a studio. Help!" With Tenology, 10cc should finally get their due as the Fab Four of the 70s. Songs such as Donna, Rubber Bullets and The Dean and I were melodically ingenious, sonically inventive, radical yet hugely commercial, crammed with ideas and hooks. As for the four albums the original foursome made together, from 1973's self-titled debut to 1976's How Dare You!, they posit 10cc as the missing art-pop link between the Beatles of the White Album and the Blur of Parklife. "We took on the mantle of the Beatles," agrees Eric Stewart, nominally 10cc's guitarist even if, like all the members, he handled other instruments and sang.

He also functioned as the band's own in-house George Martin, largely producing and engineering their records, albeit with help from the others. "We experimented on every song – you'll never hear two that sound alike." Ensconced at their Strawberry Studios in Stockport, 10cc – Gouldman, Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme – didn't just include four singers and musicians who dabbled with the recording console. They also all wrote together, in various permutations, which probably explains the super-diverse nature of the material: a Gouldman-Stewart composition would differ wildly from a Godley-Creme one, while a Godley-Stewart or Creme-Gouldman track would take another tack entirely. "I'd forgotten how avant-garde some of our music was," says Godley, the drummer and singer whose ethereal falsetto was used to striking effect, despite him being the only member not to sing on a 10cc No 1 – that's Stewart on I'm Not in Love and Creme on Rubber Bullets, while the basso profondo on Dreadlock Holiday is Gouldman's.

Godley is perhaps thinking of Une Nuit a Paris , the nine-minute, three-part mini-opera that opens 1975's The Original Soundtrack , and inspired Queen to make Bohemian Rhapsody. "One magazine recently described it as 'an overreach'," he says, "but we were constantly testing the waters of what we could and couldn't do." Gouldman (bass, guitar, mandolin, autoharp) is annoyed by the pigeonholing of 10cc as a " guilty pleasure " when their so-called "soft rock" was artfully jagged: imagine what Frank Zappa might have achieved had he assembled a pop group in Manchester. They were the kid brothers of invention. "People would ask: 'What sort of music is it?' But it's not prog, it's not art rock – it's 10cc music," Gouldman says. He brings up the song Clockwork Creep from 1974's Sheet Music: "Who else would write a song about a bomb on an airplane – from the position of the bomb?" For all the rapier satire and hyper-kinetic approach to songcraft, 10cc became hugely popular.

Creme (guitar, keyboards), who grew up wanting to be a comic artist and brought that cartoon vision to bear on the music, was stunned by the scale of their success. "In those days, records sold in their thousands," he says of 10cc's many chart forays. "You needed to sell 40,000 to 50,000 a week to get in the top 10. I used to try to imagine thousands of people going out of their homes or work, into a record shop, to buy our track. It used to boggle my mind." It was Creme who, after lending his comically high falsetto to Donna, The Dean and I and Rubber Bullets, came closest to being 10cc's frontman, at least in the early days. But then, 10cc had three other frontmen, what with Godley's more austere charisma – not forgetting Stewart, who had sung on two worldwide No 1s in the 60s with the Mindbenders , and Gouldman who had written hits for the Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits and the Hollies . Any one of them could have legitimately claimed the spotlight for themselves.

But there was hardly a rush to do that because in another sense they were all backroom boys – just before forming 10cc, they had been the session band for Neil Sedaka on his two "comeback" albums of the early 70s. They never intended to be pop stars, nor did they have much rock'n'roll in them – apart, Gouldman says, from the odd bit of creative vandalism when Godley and Creme, art-school graduates both, would doodle on paintings in hotel lobbies or lifts. 10cc at the height of their fame, in 1976 (left to right): Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley. Photograph: Erica Echenberg/Redferns Rather, they were happiest in the studio, endlessly finessing their complex four-minute creations – the "professional wing" of Stewart and Gouldman would do their thing, and Godley and Creme would work their magic while stoned on lethal grass – what Stewart calls "their Benson & Hedges mindfuckers". "Eric had already been a fully fledged pop star, but he wanted to get into production," Creme says. "We liked being backroom boys at Strawberry.

I was horrified when we had to play live." Really, 10cc were less rock stars than part of a Brill Building or Hollywood tunesmith tradition. "We weren't Zeppelin ," Creme admits. "We were pop, albeit an extreme version. That's because we had four pretty odd minds. All sorts of things can happen when you're free and easy with ideas and encouraged by the other lunatics around you." 10cc peaked in the summer of 1975 with a supremely evocative piece of sustained mood music – all six minutes and 12 seconds of it – with a revolutionary soundbed of multitracked vocals and an ambiguous lyric that painted a sombre picture of young love. I'm Not in Love was a production milestone, one that has since won acclaim from Paul McCartney and Axl Rose, as well as 8m radio plays around the world. It also suggested the cerebral 10cc did have beating hearts. Within a year, though, Godley and Creme had quit, to work on a guitar-based contraption called " the gizmo " and a triple album featuring comedian Peter Cook and jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, entitled Consequences .

The bifurcation of 10cc revealed much about their component parts. By 1981 Godley and Creme's music had more in common with the brainiac funk of Talking Heads, and within a couple of years they had become video pioneers, directing promos for Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Peter Gabriel. Meanwhile, the smoother pop axis of Gouldman-Stewart continued as 10cc, enjoying considerable success with Deceptive Bends (1977) and Bloody Tourists (1978), although by the early 80s Stewart had lost an eye in a car crash and the music had lost much of its edge. All agree they should have been adult enough to accommodate Godley and Creme's extracurricular activities and welcomed them back as and when they were ready to record as 10cc. But that didn't happen, and although Godley and Gouldman remain friends and Creme and Stewart keep in touch (they are brothers-in-law), Godley and Creme's partnership dissolved after 27 years in the late 80s and Stewart and Gouldman's relationship broke down soon after that. A full-scale reunion, then, seems unlikely.

And yet not reforming is more in keeping with 10cc's original spirit of adventurism and risk-taking. "I remember seeing a programme on VH1 that brought dead bands back to life, and it was toe-curlingly embarrassing," says Godley. "If I didn't see a future, creatively, then I might be one of those people who dream about the past, but I'm not. It was fantastic for its time, but I have no delusions about recreating it." Consequently, he's now working on a music-sharing app . Today, Creme (the only survivor of the 60s "beat boom" to become a member of a sampling/techno band, as he did when he joined Art of Noise in 1998) is in the Producers with Trevor Horn , Gouldman still tours as 10cc, and Stewart – arguably the one most affected by the fall-outs – makes music from his home studio in France. They agree it was their lack of a coherent image that has meant 10cc have been replaced by Queen as representatives of 70s rock's giddily inventive wing.

As Godley puts it: "We only had 50% of what's required for a successful cultural moment. We had The Noise, not The Look." Not that there are any hard feelings about Queen having picked up their baton. "I'd like to ram the baton up their backside," says Gouldman with some relish. He's joking, of course, but he is more serious when he says: "It's a tragedy that we didn't stay together. It was a flame that burned incredibly brightly, but we could have lasted so much longer." He allows himself a chuckle.

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Musician, songwriter, producer, arranger, singer, philosopher, wit. Not a description of Oscar Wilde, but one of the UK’s most popular yet unsung musical heroes, GRAHAM GOULDMAN, whose catchy tunes and lyrical messages are still being enjoyed in most corners of the world, some thirty years after his first hit. If songs like the timeless classic, ‘I’m Not In Love’, the poptastic ‘Things We Do For Love’ or the quasi reggae ‘Dreadlock Holiday’ mean little or nothing, then reader, read on, you’ve had you ears tuned to the wrong station all these years. When he was about eight years old, and all his class-mates were dreaming of being train drivers or lion tamers, Graham decided he was going to be a drummer. Even at that tender age he knew music would be his destiny, but after a few tentative lessons, he realized wielding a pair of drumsticks wasn’t quite what he had in mind. It wasn’t until he reached the age of eleven, when a cousin returned from Spain with a cheap acoustic guitar that he realized this was it. “As soon as I held it,” he remembers, “I was gone”.

Graham left school in his hometown of Manchester as soon as was legally possible, and was soon fronting the Whirlwinds on lead guitar. This was the Sixties, the most exciting time in the history of Western music when the Beatles were happening, Liverpool was the new capitol of the world, Elvis was king, Motown was the coolest, and Britain was spawning bands by the ton. The Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Yardbirds, Georgie Fame, The Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, The Springfields and the Mockingbirds. The Mockingbirds were formed after Graham tired of the Whirlwinds. Working by day in a Gentleman’s outfitters and writing songs and playing by night didn’t pan out at all and Graham was soon fired from his day job. It was, hardly surprising, a blessing in disguise. He’d already caught the attention of Harvey Lisberg, the energetic manager of the biggest act to break out of Manchester, Herman’s Hermits. Harvey offered Graham a small retainer to sit in his office and write songs all day – a dream come true.

Within months the Mockingbirds signed to the Columbia (UK) division of EMI and were booked as the warm up band at the taping of the Manchester based BBC TV show, Top Of The Pops. And as if that wasn’t enough, Graham had his first Top Ten hit at the age of 19, with the haunting, ‘For Your Love’, recorded by the Yardbirds. Graham’s songwriting career was off with a flourish. He penned two more big hits for the Yardbirds, ‘Heartful Of Soul’ and ‘Evil Hearted You’ and had his next Top Ten hit with ‘Look Through Any Window’ which he wrote for the Hollies. ‘Bus Stop’ followed and although Graham was still recording with and without the Mockingbirds, the hits continued. ‘Pamela Pamela’ was ex-Mindbenders Wayne Fontana’s biggest solo hit. Herman’s Hermit hit the Top Ten with ‘No Milk Today’ which featured the unforgettable suburban comment, “the bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn”, and ‘East West’ which was covered in 1991 be fellow Mancunian Morrissey.

In between writing more hot songs for the likes of Jeff Beck, The Mindbenders, The Hollies et al, the late Sixties saw Graham spend time in New York writing and recording for Kasenetz-Katz hit factory and invest with Eric Stewart in Strawberry Studios. Back in the UK, after this spell in New York, Graham decided to get Eric, Kevin Godley and Lol Crème together to complete the Kasenetz-Katz recordings. Together the four then produced and played on Two Neil Sedaka albums, ‘The Tra La Days Are Over’ and ‘Solitaire’ (both of which were recorded and produced at Strawberry Studios). There were only minutes before 10cc were born… Jonathan King heard some demos by the foursome, gave them their name (the origin of which has gone into music business mythology) and signed them to his own UK record label. Between 1972 and 1976 10cc had an outstanding string of hit records, such as the two No.

1’s ‘Rubber Bullets’ and the aforementioned ‘I’m Not In Love’, ’I’m Mandy Fly Me’, ‘Wall Street Shuffle’, ‘Art For Art’s Sake’ and many more, making them one of the most successful and influential English bands of the 70’s. Graham had found a natural songwriting partner in the sweet voiced Eric Stewart; ‘I’m Not In love’ became an all time classic love song. “I’d already written the sort of suspended chords at the beginning of the song”, says Graham, “ and Eric came up with the title…..he saw it more as a song about not having to say “I Love You”, but I saw it more as someone trying to ignore the obvious”. In the twenty something years since Gouldman and Stewart wrote the song, its been covered by artists as diverse as the Pretenders (their version featured in the smash movie “Indecent Proposal”), Will To Power, and, more recently, The Fun Loving Criminals. Between 1972 and 1976 all four of the band’s albums were bit hits; three hit the UK Top Ten.

In 1976 Godley and Creme left the band, Stewart and Gouldman retained the name and continued the hits with ‘Good Morning Judge’. The No. 1 ‘Dreadlock Holiday’ and the international smash ‘Things We Do For Love’. Then fate turned nasty when Eric was involved in a serious car accident at the end of 1979; things were never the same again. While Eric embarked on a long convalescence, Graham took stock of his career and decided to take on some solo projects. Having always harboured a love of film which rivalled his love of music, he had occasionally toyed with the idea of writing film soundtracks, but hadn’t exactly been sitting around twiddling his thumbs looking for something to do. And this was the ideal time to try something different. First he wrote the theme song to the respectfully successful Farrah Fawcett movie ‘Sunburn’ and a year later he released an album of songs written for the hugely popular animated feature, ‘Animalympics’ which continues to sell steadily on video.

As soon as he’d finished ‘Animalympics’, Graham was invited by none other than the Ramones to produce their ’Pleasant Dreams‘ album for Sire Records. Thinking his musical ideas must be a million miles away from those of Joey and da brudders, Graham was, nevertheless, intrigued by the prospect of working with one of New York’s finest groups of punk rockers. The result wqas that they all had enormous fun and the record was the third most successful of The Ramones’ huge catalogue of albums. Into ‘83-’84 – Graham and Eric decided to formally disband 10cc. Graham subsequently formed Wax with American songwriter Andrew Gold, whose biggest hit to date had been ‘Lonely Boy’ and whose theme for the evergreen TV series ‘The Golden Girls’ had made him hot property. Wax signed to RCA and had hits with ‘Right Between The Eyes’ (which sat at No. 1 in Spain for six weeks as well as being a UK and US hit) and ‘Bridge To Your Heart’ which hit No. 12 in the UK.

Although Wax released their third and last album in 1989, Gouldman and Gold continued (and continue) to write together. Into the nineties, amid renewed interest in everything 10cc-ish, Graham reunited with Eric Stewart to record a new 10cc album, ‘Meanwhile’, which featured some input from Godley and Creme. Although a moderate success in the UK, the album was enormous in Japan. Before you could say ‘Sushi’, Graham and Eric had jumped on a plane to Japan where their tour was so successful that the duo, with an extended line-up, were invited to return the following year. Back into the swing of touring, 1991 and 1992 saw the band undertake tours of Japan, the UK, and most of Europe. Touring continued into the following year when the band signed to the Japanese label Avex, recorded a live album and then started work on another 10cc album, ‘Mirror Mirror’. Huge amounts of promotional work followed and Graham and Eric found themselves trekking up and down the country armed only with an acoustic guitar.

As if the nineties hadn’t been busy enough already, 1995 turned out to be one of the most active periods with tours of the UK, Japan and Europe, an acoustic show at the famous Lloyds of London Building and to cap it all, a BMI citation for an unprecedented THREE MILLION plays on US radio for “I’m Not In Love”. This followed the BMI citation for two million plays of “Things We Do For Love” and one million plays of “Bus Stop”. Graham was beginning to run out of wall space. Graham has also wrote with and for a number of people. He and Tim Rice partnered on the song ‘The Monkey And The Onion’; Graham wrote ‘The Way I’m Feeling Tonight’ with Paul Carrack for the latter’s album (released in August 2002); he’s writing songs with the late Kirsty McCall for her album, with Suggs (from Madness) for his. He also spent some time in Nashville writing with, among others, Country Songwriter of the Year Gary Burr.

‘The Wax Files’, which features tracks from all three Wax albums as well as newly recorded material with Andrew Gold, released in the UK on the For Your Love label (through Dome records) and Graham also worked on writing the soundtrack for Paul Hills’ new film, ‘Raving Beauties’. Graham Gouldman is the complete musician; it’s what he’s always done, it’s what he’ll always do. And he loves it, “I just can’t imagine doing anything else”, he says simply, “I Love working with new, sometimes unsigned artists because it’s great to work with new people. I know I benefit from their fresh perspective, I can only hope they then benefit from my experience.” During the late-‘90s, Graham assembled some friends to do the occasional live show, playing mainly 10cc material, but also featuring some of his earlier hits. In 2000, concerts in the UK, Belgium and Germany were so well received that he decided to take it more seriously. With 2002 being the 30th anniversary of the 10cc hit ‘Donna’, Graham thought it good opportunity to play more live shows and remind people of the original band’s musical genius.

A UK tour covered 28 cities and towns from April-June, followed by selected one-off events during the summer and shows in Europe. Since then, Graham and the band has played shows across Europe, toured Australia and Japan and performed at several UK festivals. In June 2006, Graham takes 10cc to New Zealand for a 10-date concert tour, followed, with other summer dates including festivals in the UK, Norway and Belgium. A tour of the US is being discussed for autumn 2006. The band’s line-up is: Graham Gouldman - bass, guitar, vocals Rick Fenn - lead guitar, vocals Paul Burgess - drums The UK Number Ones : 1970-1974 -now Week Ending ACT + Links TITLE Weeks TALLY COMMENT 31 Jan 1970 Edison Lighthouse Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 5 Only No 1 Studio act with lead singer Tony Burrows . He sang on hits for many other groups. 7 Mar 1970 Lee Marvin Wandrin' Star 3 Only No 1 Tough-guy actor who growled this song in his film "Paint Your Wagon".

28 Mar 1970 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water 3 Only No 1 Only Art Garfunkel sings on this perennial favourite. Paul Simon went on to even greater solo success, but never made No 1. 18 Apr 1970 Dana All Kinds Of Everything 2 Only No 1 First Eurovision winner for Ireland. Her career was shorter than most expected. 2 May 1970 Norman Greenbaum Spirit In The Sky 2 Only No 1 A "Praising Jesus" song that Norman wrote himself. Doctor & The Medics took the song to No 1 in 1986. 16 May 1970 England World Cup Squad Back Home 3 1st No 1 Mexico World Cup sing-along, which did not help England to win the cup. 6 Jun 1970 Christie Yellow River 1 Only No 1 Written by Jeff Christie for the Tremeloes who turned it down - so he recorded it himself. 13 Jun 1970 Mungo Jerry In The Summertime 7 1st No 1 Good-time band led by Ray Dorset.

The song has been revived several times since. 1 Aug 1970 Elvis Presley The Wonder Of You 6 16th No 1 He was reviving his career in Las Vegas, and this is a live recording from his show. At this point he was still one behind the Beatles. 12 Sep 1970 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Tears Of A Clown 1 1st No 1 Motown act - Robinson was a director of the company. He had a solo No 1 in 1981. 19 Sep 1970 Freda Payne Band Of Gold 6 Only No 1 Song about marriage failure from an actress, produced by former Motown men. 31 Oct 1970 Matthew's Southern Comfort Woodstock 3 Only No 1 21 Nov 1970 Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile 1 Only No 1 American with legendary status who found fame in London, where he died two months prior to this No 1.

28 Nov 1970 Xmas No 1 Dave Edmunds I Hear You Knockin' 6 Only No 1 Mainly a producer, he has been involved in hits for dozens of artists. 9 Jan 1971 Clive Dunn Grandad 3 Only No 1 "Dad's Army" star who tapped seasonal sentimentality that Christmas & New Year. 30 Jan 1971 George Harrison My Sweet Lord 5 1st No 1 The ex-Beatle excelled with this, but was sued for plagiarism a few years later. The recording returned to the top in 2002, following his death. 6 Mar 1971 Mungo Jerry Baby Jump 2 2nd & last No 1 Written by leader Ray Dorset. He remained in the music business until the 90s. 20 Mar 1971 T Rex Hot Love 6 1st No 1 Led by Marc Bolan, an acoustic folk hero who turned electric and became a glam rock star.

1 May 1971 Dave & Ansil Collins Double Barrel 2 Only No 1 Jamaican duo who provided only the second West Indian reggae chart topper. 15 May 1971 300th No 1 Dawn Knock Three Times 5 1st No 1 19 Jun 1971 Middle Of The Road Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep 5 Only No 1 They were a Scottish foursome who first tasted success in Europe. 24 Jul 1971 T Rex Get It On 4 2nd No 1 Great guitar riffs ensured that Marc Bolan would get another chart topper. 21 Aug 1971 Diana Ross I'm Still Waiting 4 2nd No 1 (1st with Supremes) Chosen as Tony Blackburn's record of the week, it sold by the bucket load, and was her first solo No 1. 18 Sep 1971 Tams Hey Girl Don't Bother Me 3 Only No 1 American act whose US chart career was already over. This was a reissue of a 1964 US hit.

9 Oct 1971 Rod Stewart Maggie May 5 1st No 1 A veteran of several bands, notably The Faces. This remains a perennial radio favourite. 13 Nov 1971 Slade Coz I Luv You 4 1st No 1 Wolverhampton glam rockers who launched a long and successful career with this. 11 Dec 1971 Xmas No 1 Benny Hill Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) 4 Only No 1 Popular tv comic who recorded novelty songs over a number of years. 8 Jan 1972 New Seekers I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing 4 1st No 1 They were formed by a member of the Seekers. Song started as a Coca Cola tv ad. 5 Feb 1972 T Rex Telegram Sam 2 3rd No 1 First hit for the glam rockers' new record company, and from their album "Slider". 19 Feb 1972 Chicory Tip Son Of My Father 3 Only No 1 Written by Giorgio Moroder. Was first No 1 to feature a Moog Synthesiser.

11 Mar 1972 Nilsson Without You 5 Only No 1 Suicide song written by two members of Badfinger who both later committed suicide. Mariah Carey took the song to No 1 in 1994. 15 Apr 1972 The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Amazing Grace 5 Only No 1 Traditional hymn played by a Scottish bagpipe band. It was the best-selling single of the year. 20 May 1972 T Rex Metal Guru 4 4th & last No 1 Success continued for a couple more years before the hits began to dry up. 17 Jun 1972 Don McLean Vincent 2 1st No 1 Song about Dutch painter Van Gogh. Don also wrote "American Pie", which made No 2 for him, and No 1 for Madonna in 2000. 1 Jul 1972 Slade Take Me Back 'Ome 1 2nd No 1 Noddy Holder's rasping vocals took the glam boys to the top again.

8 Jul 1972 Donny Osmond Puppy Love 5 1st No 1 Written by Paul Anka . First No 1 for a member of the squeaky clean family act from Utah. 12 Aug 1972 Alice Cooper School's Out 3 Only No 1 Shock-rock act from Arizona who used instruments of death and live snakes on stage. 2 Sep 1972 Rod Stewart You Wear It Well 1 2nd No 1 His popularity was soaring at this time, but his next No 1 was 3 years away. 9 Sep 1972 Slade Mama Weer All Crazee Now 3 3rd No 1 All Slade's chart toppers, were written by band members Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. 30 Sep 1972 David Cassidy How Can I Be Sure 2 1st No 1 Star of US tv series the Partridge Family . His solo career was more successful in the UK than at home. 14 Oct 1972 Lieutenant Pigeon Mouldy Old Dough 4 Only No 1 Coventry group which included a mother and son. Was recorded in the front room of their semi.

11 Nov 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan Clair 2 1st No 1 Irishman who dressed as a 1920s worker in flat cap, braces and baggy trousers. 25 Nov 1972 Chuck Berry My Ding-A-Ling 4 Only No 1 Respected pioneer of R&B and rock 'n' roll, whose only topper was this live, innuendo-laden novelty item. 23 Dec 1972 Xmas No 1 Little Jimmy Osmond Long Haired Lover From Liverpool 5 Only No 1 Osmond family member with an Xmas novelty item, and who at age 9 became the youngest chart topper ever. 27 Jan 1973 Sweet Blockbuster 5 Only No 1 Highly successful glam rockers who had multiple Top 10 hits during the decade. Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song. 3 Mar 1973 Slade Cum On Feel The Noize 4 4th No 1 First of the No 1s to enter at the top for this major band of the day.

31 Mar 1973 Donny Osmond The Twelfth Of Never 1 2nd No 1 Another tear-jerker revival got the teeny boppers buying the single. 7 Apr 1973 Gilbert O'Sullivan Get Down 2 2nd & last No 1. Song about his dog. The hits continued for 2 more years, when he began a lengthy litigation with his manager. 21 Apr 1973 Dawn Tony Orlando Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree 4 2nd & last No 1. Heart-warming song about a prisoner returning home. They were still performing at the start of the 2000s. 19 May 1973 Wizzard See My Baby Jive 4 1st No 1. Roy Wood 's latest group which grabbed plenty of success for a year or so. 16 Jun 1973 Suzi Quatro Can The Can 1 1st No 1. American girl rocker and bassist who found fame in the UK easier than at home. Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song.

23 Jun 1973 10 CC Rubber Bullets 1 1st No 1. Bouncy number that differs greatly from their later slow, heavy productions. 30 Jun 1973 Slade Skweeze Me Pleeze Me 3 5th No 1 During the height of their popularity they also scored with three No 1 albums. 21 Jul 1973 Peters & Lee Welcome Home 1 Only No 1 MOR man and girl duo who were more at home on the supper club circuit. 28 Jul 1973 Gary Glitter I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am) 4 1st No 1 A long-time struggling musician, he was nearly 30 by the time he became a glam-rock star. 25 Aug 1973 Donny Osmond Young Love 4 3rd & last No 1. A revival from 1957 - he got one more No 1 in 1974, as part of the Osmonds.

22 Sep 1973 Wizzard Angel Fingers 1 2nd & last No 1 Later in 1973 Wood got to No 4 with his famous Xmas hit. He remains in the business, and charted again in 2000. 29 Sep 1973 Simon Park Orchestra Eye Level 4 Only No 1 The instrumental theme from tv series "Van Der Valk" was first tv theme to reach the top of the charts. 27 Oct 1973 David Cassidy Daydreamer 3 2nd & last No 1. His teen-based popularity began to wane after this and he returned to acting. By 2000 he was a Las Vegas cabaret act. 17 Nov 1973 Gary Glitter I Love You Love Me Love 4 2nd No 1 Second consecutive No 1 which sold over a million copies world-wide. 15 Dec 1973 Xmas No 1 Slade Merry Xmas Everybody 5 6th & last No 1 This perennial Xmas favourite has been in the charts several times since. They broke up in the 80s.

19 Jan 1974 New Seekers You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me 1 2nd & last No 1. They had enjoyed huge success since their first No 1. However, after one more Top 10, they split. 26 Jan 1974 Mud Tiger Feet 4 1st No 1 Third No 1 for writers Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman . Popular party record. 23 Feb 1974 Suzi Quatro Devil Gate Drive 2 2nd & last No 1. 4th No 1 for Chinn & Chapman . Suzi went into acting shortly after this, but was doing concerts again in the late 1990s. 9 Mar 1974 Alvin Stardust Jealous Mind 1 Only No 1. He was called Shane Fenton in the 1960s. His new black leather image gave him a new career a decade later. 16 Mar 1974 Paper Lace Billy Don't Be A Hero 3 Only No 1 They came from Nottingham and soon returned there.

Written by Mitch Murray who had No 1s in 1963 & 1968. 6 Apr 1974 Terry Jacks Seasons In The Sun 4 Only No 1 First Canadian at No 1 since 1957 (Paul Anka). The song (written in French by Belgian, Jacques Brel ), has English lyrics by poet Rod McKuen. Westlife took the song back to the top at the end of 1999. 4 May 1974 Abba Waterloo 2 1st No 1 Eurovision winner for Sweden. They became international super stars by the end of the decade. 18 May 1974 Rubettes Sugar Baby Love 4 Only No 1 Former session men who achieved moderate success during the mid-70's. 15 Jun 1974 Ray Stevens The Streak 1 Only No 1 US Country/Gospel singer who hit with several quirky songs during the 1970s. 22 Jun 1974 Gary Glitter Always Yours 1 3rd & last No 1 The great showman continued live concerts to hoards of loyal fans into the mid 1990s.

29 Jun 1974 Charles Aznavour She 4 Only No 1 French crooner with a British tv theme. He went on to stardom in the US. 27 Jul 1974 George McCrae Rock Your Baby 3 Only No 1 Regarded by some as the first Disco No 1. It was a New York club hit first. 17 Aug 1974 Three Degrees When Will I See You Again 2 Only No 1 Part of the Philadelphia Sound, they had more Top 10 hits in the UK than at home. 31 Aug 1974 Osmonds Love Me For A Reason 3 Only No 1 Last No 1, either as group or solo, for the Osmond family. In total they amassed 26 UK hits in 4� years. 21 Sep 1974 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting 3 Only No 1 Recorded in 10 minutes as a B-side, it sold 10 million worldwide. A version by Bus Stop, featuring Douglas made the Top 10 in May 1998.

12 Oct 1974 John Denver Annie's Song 1 Only No 1 Folk/Country singer and songwriter was a huge star in the US, but this was his only solo hit in the UK. 19 Oct 1974 Sweet Sensation Sad Sweet Dreamer 1 Only No 1 TV talent contest winners who had one more hit before disappearing. 26 Oct 1974 Ken Boothe Everything I Own 3 Only No 1 Jamaican reggae artist with a song by David Gates from Bread. Boy George took the song to No 1 in 1987. 16 Nov 1974 David Essex Gonna Make You A Star 3 1st No 1 He found stardom as an actor before singing on the soundtrack of a film, and then breaking into the charts. 7 Dec 1974 Barry White You're The First, The Last, My Everything 2 Only No 1 The "Lurve Walrus" was another Philly-Sound star, who had numerous hits in the 70s. Still performing at the end of the 90s.

21 Dec 1974 Xmas No 1 Mud Lonely This Christmas 4 2nd No 1

Question: Who had a U.K. No 1 in the 70's with Rubber Bullets
Answer: 10 C.C.